Lessons (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

"Lessons"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode
Episode no.	Season 7 Episode 1
Directed by	David Solomon
Written by	Joss Whedon
Production code	7ABB01
Original air date	September 24, 2002
Guest appearance(s)
Anthony Stewart Head as Rupert Giles Alex Breckenridge as Kit Holburn D. B. Woodside as Principal Wood Kali Rocha as Halfrek Mark Metcalf as The First/The Master Juliet Landau as The First/Drusilla Harry Groener as The First/Mayor Richard Wilkins George Hertzberg as The First/Adam Clare Kramer as The First/Glory Adam Busch as The First/Warren Mears David Zepeda as Carlos Trejo
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"Lessons" is the first episode of the seventh season of the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dawn finds vengeful spirits in the new Sunnydale High while Giles is rehabilitating Willow in England.

Istanbul: A dark-haired girl runs through an arched hallway, looking over her shoulder and panting. She's being chased by two people in hooded cloaks. After trying various escape routes, she is trapped in a dead-end. She sees a drain pipe and tries to use it to scale the building. The people chasing her grab her foot, but she manages to escape their grip and easily climbs up to the roof. There, another hooded figure is waiting and pushes her off the building. She screams, but she lands on the ground alive, on her back. Two hooded figures hold her down, yet she fights back. A third figure raises an arched, shiny, silver dagger and stabs her.

Buffy is in Sunnydale training her sister how to fight vampires. She instructs Dawn that fighting and slaying are about power. They discuss the fact that Sunnydale High has just reopened; Dawn will be attending for the first time.

Meanwhile, Willow is studying with Giles in Westbury, England. She studies magic and meditation with a coven of Wiccans that Giles knows. She is learning control, but feels frightened and distraught because she "killed people".

Xander is working construction at Sunnydale High School. He notes that the principal's office is right over the Hellmouth. Buffy follows Dawn into the school where she meets Principal Robin Wood. She goes into a bathroom, where she finds a mysterious talisman. Upon seeing the talisman, she sees a dead girl who threatens her. She says Buffy was unable to protect her, and that she will not be able to protect Dawn either.

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